{"id":138086,"date":"2022-04-13T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/microfossils-may-be-evidence-life-began-very-quickly-after-earth-formed"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:24:57","slug":"microfossils-may-be-evidence-life-began-very-quickly-after-earth-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/microfossils-may-be-evidence-life-began-very-quickly-after-earth-formed","title":{"rendered":"Microfossils may be evidence life began \u2018very quickly\u2019 after Earth formed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microfossils-may-be-evidence-life-began-very-quickly-after-earth-formed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe they have found evidence of microbes that were thriving near hydrothermal vents on Earth\u2019s surface just 300m years after the planet formed \u2013 the strongest evidence yet that life began far earlier than is widely assumed.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, it would suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life are relatively basic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists believe they have found evidence of microbes that were thriving near hydrothermal vents on Earth\u2019s surface just 300m years after the planet formed \u2013 the strongest evidence yet that life began far earlier than is widely assumed. If confirmed, it would suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life are relatively basic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}